Arizona has been a hot bed of extremist anger and threats against political and election officials. Those threats have been leveled against both Democratic and Republican leaders.
"We're in dangerous times. This is not the first time we've been... threatened, I've been threatened many times," Lake told reporters at a campaign event in Queen Creek.
"We'll get to the bottom of this, I really don't want to get too far ahead of it, I want investigators to look into it and I truly want to find the people who sent this because it's wrong that this is happening." Lake's Democratic opponent, current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, condemned the behavior directed at her opponent and her staff, saying the incident was "incredibly concerning."
"Political violence, threats, or intimidation have no place in our democracy," Hobbs said in a statement. "I strongly condemn this threatening behavior directed at Lake and her staff." Hobbs' campaign office was broken into late last month. A suspect has been arrested in that case, but police said the man had broken into at least one other office recently. Police did not connect the suspect to any political motivation."There is no place in our democracy for stuff like that," Kelly told CNN at a campaign event in Tucson. "But we don't need to, anybody needs to be doing anything like that. It's just wrong.
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